Lisa: Um, excuse me, isn't there anything here that doesnt have meat in it?Doris: Possibly the meatloaf.Lisa: Well I believe you're required to have a vegetarian alternative.Doris: (pulls out a hot dog, takes sausage out). Yum. It's rich in bunly goodness.Lisa: Do you remember when you lost your passion for this work?

Let's hope that horse ever finds its way into McDonald's burgers. Because every single burger can contain the meat from 1,000 different cattle according to those Spurlock Morgan food-industry hating types. One horse wanders into the wrong abbatoir and it'll be 1% horse in everything.

brantgoose:Let's hope that horse ever finds its way into McDonald's burgers. Because every single burger can contain the meat from 1,000 different cattle according to those Spurlock Morgan food-industry hating types. One horse wanders into the wrong abbatoir and it'll be 1% horse in everything.

brantgoose:Let's hope that horse ever finds its way into McDonald's burgers. Because every single burger can contain the meat from 1,000 different cattle according to those Spurlock Morgan food-industry hating types. One horse wanders into the wrong abbatoir and it'll be 1% horse in everything.

That would be 0.1% horse (/stickler for math)

More seriously, that's why I don't consider the reports of 'trace amounts of horse DNA' as a serious problem, because trace amounts could mean anything, and unless the meat is coming from a supply chain in which horses are absolutely not processed anywhere nearby (e.g., probably the US), you may be able to detect trace amounts. 5%, though, to me is high enough that it's just just an accident but a deliberate contamination of the beef supply (most likely because it's cheaper to throw it in than to use actual beef)